Guyana News

A three-month delay as a result of a stay granted by the Appeal Court, has been granted in the matter against former Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, who is before the courts for the alleged fraudulent conversion of law books.

Closing arguments were on Friday made in the matter against a Soesdyke businessman who was charged last September with trafficking two Venezuelan nationals for labour.

A man is now a remanded prisoner after being charged with stealing more than $2 million worth of appliances from his cousin.

A vendor who police say they found with 35 grammes of cannabis in his stall, was on Friday remanded to prison on a charge of possession for trafficking.

A fish vendor was on Friday remanded to prison for attempting to commit a felony, less than a day after being charged and placed on a bond for a similar offence.

Two hundred and thirty-four youths, trained in the areas of first aid and home nursing, recently graduated from the St John’s Association.

A 19-year-old of `E’ Field Sophia was yesterday arrested after being found with 40 grams of cannabis in his possession.

By Zoisa Fraser Guyana Police Force ranks are currently under investigation for allegedly taking bribes from Haitian nationals journeying from Linden to Lethem, from where they are being smuggled across the border to Brazil.

Although maintaining that the submission of the nominees for the chairmanship of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) remains solely his remit, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday signalled that he was open to President David Granger “suggesting” names for his consideration during their impending talks on the subject.

A 61-year-old livestock farmer died last Monday evening, hours after he was struck down by a car driven by a police constable.

Weldaad police ranks discovered 120 pounds of cannabis abandoned along a Weldaad, West Coast Berbice street during the wee hours of Friday morning.

Bandits yesterday morning invaded the La Grange, West Bank Demerara home of Member of Parliament (MP) Komal Chand and brutalised his son before carting off a quantity of cash and jewellery.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has been unable to meet its first crop production target of 33,863 tonnes, falling short by 332 tonnes of sugar.

The Supreme Court of the Judicature has condemned the inclusion of two Puisne Judges in a political party poster.

The mother of Ramkarran Mohan, the four-year-old who died after being hit by a car driven by the daughter of a senior rank of the Guyana Police Force more than two years ago, is still demanding justice for her son.

Vendors who sell at the Mon Repos market, on the East Coast of Demerara, are unhappy with the arrangements made for their recent relocation from the Mon Repos Public Road to Agriculture Road by the area’s Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC), which they say has since neglected them since.

The locally-owned Guysons Oil and Gas firm is currently in negotiations for a large swathe of former sugar estate lands at Wales, on the West Bank of Demerara, which are proposed to be used for oil and gas support services use, a government official said.

As it awaits the construction of its planned Ogle headquarters, ExxonMobil has leased businessman Rizwan Khan’s seven-storey building in Duke Street, Kingston, Georgetown, where its current offices willed be consolidated.

The sudden death of her husband pushed new mother Yonelle Drakes to cope with the grief by immersing herself in the art of baking.

The Ministry of Social Protection (MoSP) has condemned the recent attack on activist Joel Simpson, while saying that members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community should be accepted for who they are.